Companies are restructuring engineering teams into smaller, more nimble cross-functional ‘pods,’ made up of humans and AI agents

As corporate America looks to redesign the workplace for the AI age, there’s a new kind of team gaining traction: the “pod.” Smaller than a traditional engineering group, pods are designed to move faster to build and iterate on products. They’re also more cross-functional, including not just engineers but also designers and applied scientists. And critically, all that expertise is concentrated in just a handful of human workers (anywhere from one to eight), as well as AI agents.